Tickets are on sale now for November events with acclaimed actress Anna Kendrick (
Into the Woods,
Up in the Air,
Pitch Perfect), Bravo TV producer and
Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen, and Zadie Smith -- the author of
White Teeth and
NW -- discussing her latest novel
Swing Time.

Ticket pre-sales (book + ticket, online only) kick off on Tuesday, October 25th for
London Times columnist
Caitlin Moran
(and please note the updated date for this event, November 30th). And
we've just announced a February 2017 event with the author of the
National Book Award-nominated
Wolf in White Van,
John Darnielle.

Stay tuned for next week's newsletter for
the unveiling of our December events schedule, including our annual
Brattle Theatre event with the cast of
America's Test Kitchen and our beloved Winter Warehouse Sale.

In September we hosted Alan Cumming, in
conversation with WGBH's Jared Bowen, for a discussion of Cumming's new
book of essays and photos --
You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams. Check out the video, courtesy of the
Forum Network.

We appreciate the feedback we get from readers of this newsletter. Please send any comments to Alex at
newsletter@harvard.com.

Thanks for reading,

Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store

New on Our Shelves

Fiction

The Eastern Shore:

A Novel

by Ward Just

$25.00

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Echo House comes the story of a young journalist in a small town who exposes
the criminal past of a town haberdasher, a decision with ramifications
that will haunt him throughout the rest of his career.

Nonfiction

Dead Feminists:

Historic Heroines in Living Color

by Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring

$24.95

Sasquatch Books, hardcover

Based
on the beloved Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this
gorgeously illustrated, illuminating look at twenty-seven feminist
figures ties history's inspiring women and the challenges they faced to
today's most important issues.

Scholarly

American Enlightenments:

Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

by Caroline Winterer

$35.00

Yale University Press, hardcover

In this revelatory work, Stanford historian
Caroline Winterer argues that Americans followed many paths toward
political, religious, scientific, and artistic enlightenment in the
1700s that were influenced by European models in more complex ways than
commonly thought.

Kids & Young Adult

The Land of Stories:

A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales

by Chris Colfer

$25.99

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, hardcover

Enter the world of fairy tales in this
stunning illustrated gift book that includes more than thirty-five
beloved stories and rhymes retold by #1
New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer.

Bram Stoker's Dracula is
the novel that introduced the creature known as the vampire to
millions. It has spawned countless imitations and references and is
considered by many to be the single most important work in the vampire
horror genre.

Remainders

Remainders
are bargain books, new books at used-book prices. We have a limited
number of copies of these titles, so if you see something that you're
interested in, come in and check it out soon. To see more of our
Remainders section, visit our Remainders page.

The Book of Strange New Things:

A Novel

by Michel Faber

$6.99, paperback (originally $17.00)

The Book of Strange New Things

is the genre-defying story of Peter, a devoted man of faith who is
called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away
from his home, and his wife Bea, left behind on earth.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North:

A Novel

by Richard Flanagan

$5.99, paperback (originally $16.00)

In The Narrow Road to the Deep North,
Richard Flanagan moves deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day
Australia. This Man Booker Award-winning novel tells a story of the many
forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age only
to discover all that he has lost.

Philosophy:

100 Essential Thinkers

by Philip Stokes

$6.99, paperback (originally $14.99)

If
it feels like studying philosophy involves learning a dizzying array of
names and schools of thought, help has finally arrived. Each of the 100
entries in this user-friendly book includes a succinct overview of an
important thinker's life and thought.

Recent Finds in the Used Department

Featured used books go fast, so if any
titles interest you, stop in to check them out soon. We will hold the
book if you are the first caller to reserve it. To reserve a book, call
(617) 661-1515 and ask for our Used Department. We're also always
looking for books to buy. Learn about selling your used books, including textbooks, here.

Tarkovsky

edited by Nathan Dunne

Originally published by Black Dog Publishing in 2008

$75.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition

Andrei
Tarkovsky is the most influential Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era,
and one of the world's most renowned cinematic geniuses. In Tarkovsky, leading writers and filmmakers assess the relevance of his work now and the impact of visual art on his films.

Investigate, Ask, Tell, Draw, Build:

3XN Architects

by Matteo Cainer

Originally published by Black Dog Publishing in 2007

$85.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition

Investigate, Ask, Tell, Draw, Build
profiles one of Europe's most exciting and innovative architecture
practices, Denmark's 3XN. It explores how a practice working within the
Scandinavian tradition of functionality is now one of the leading
imaginative forces in European architecture.

Georges Seurat:

The Art of Vision

by Michelle Foa

Originally published by Yale University Press in 2015

$35.00 (hardcover) in Very Good condition

This beautifully illustrated study of
Georges Seurat explores the artist's profound interest in theories of
visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated
seascape, urban, and suburban scenes.